Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her...

Captain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never...

Aldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his...

An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his...

As an interpreter of African languages, Bruno Salvador is much in demand. He makes it a principle to remain neutral - no matter...

A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust.

It was all...

'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love'

A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm...

'I felt the powerful strength of my family overrunning me like a heavy rush of water'

For Andre, a young man growing up on a...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work...

A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of...

Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe

In this masterly synthesis, Arthur...

'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of...

The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be...

These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well-known tales, 'Babette's...

'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history'

Unknown...

Strauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three...

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin

In these stories,...

From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the...

All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is...

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier...

Dark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated...

The companion novel to Mrs Bridge, this is a pitch-perfect portrayal of marriage and family life and a poignant dissection of the...

Evan S. Connell's Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of...

In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic...

Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty...

In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the...

It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his...

Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The...

Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like...

First published in 1949, The Golden Apples is an acutely observed, richly atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana,...